Exporting your Omnivore data

You can use Omnivore's export tool to export all of your links, highlights, and saved page content.

Exporting with the exporter tool

To use Omnivore's export tool:

First, login to your Omnivore account here:
https://omnivore.app/login
Then, navigate to your Account Settings here:
https://omnivore.app/settings/account
On the account page, click the Export Data button.
This will gather all of your saved links, their page content,
and your highlights into a single zip file.
You will receive a confirmation email once the process has started,
usually within 30 minutes of clicking the Export button.

The entire process takes about 1 hour per 1000 saved items.

Once completed, you will receive an email a containing a download link, which is valid for 24 hours and can be used to download all your data.

The zip archive will contain a few items:

./contents/*.html:
This is all of the content of your saved pages.
./highlights/*.md:
This is all of your highlights saved in markdown format. The slug attribute from your metadata is used as the filename.
metadata_*.json:
Metadata files for all your saved items.
These are provided in batches of 20 items.
So items 0-20, 20-40, etc.

You can use the jq tool to convert the JSON files to CSV.

To create a single column CSV with all your urls, in the directory with your json files:

jq -r '.[].url' *.json

To create a CSV that also contains your labels, you can use this command:

jq -r '[.[] | {url: .url, labels: (.labels | join(","))} | "\(.url),\"\(.labels)\""] | @csv' *.json